Chaz
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54 minutes ago, Pure Spirit said:
Because the site continues to do its one job and is the #1 result when Googling for "box office". The home page has high information density and the site is easy to navigate. Even in your post complaining about it, you didn't suggest a better alternative, guru's site looks awful even if you think the analysis is better. The second Google result is called "boxofficepro" and seems more interested in selling a premium product that 99% of people Googling don't want. I also got an "internal server error" when clicking one of their links. So even if Boxofficemojo is making mistakes, their competition is too. There's only so much money to be made reporting raw box office results.
I'm not saying boxofficemojo can't be improved, but it's damn hard to knock out the #1 player in a space, even with a "superior" product. I know this, because I worked at a startup a decade ago that tried to kill craigslist. Craigslist is still around and that startup is not. It was a good life lesson for me, I was much more careful picking tech companies going forward.
Well, if it makes you feel better, Craigslist is not long for this world either. You guys were just ahead of your time.
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Can we talk about Austin Powers adjusted?
International Man of Mystery: $105m
The Spy Who Shagged Me: $365m
Goldmember: $330m
Peak comedy box office of my lifetime for sure. I saw Spy Who Shagged Me in theaters when I was 13 and honestly thought it was the funniest thing I had ever seen.
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27 minutes ago, sfran43 said:
Oof. I forgot that summer 01 was such a slog.
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Annabelle is the third creepy doll movie to release in five days.
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48 minutes ago, a2k said:
One way it can match DORY's 46%+ drop is by doing just under Tue on Fri,
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25 (+31.5%)
20 (-20%)
= 64 (-47%)
DORY did 23.2 on Tue and 23.2 on Fri
I2 did 27.0 on Tue and 24.1 on Fri
18 Fri would give 60-61, close to 50% drop with those holds.
I don’t think it will approach those numbers. Dory had a godly run its first two weeks.
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55 minutes ago, UserHN said:
What do you expect? These are basically how communist countries behave. Very strict and controlled. No one could even say what they really want to say because there's no free press. I believe a prominent man in the film industry voiced out his dissent regarding the sudden cancellation of The Eight Hundred, and many commenters agreed with him. But within hours all these comments were deleted by the censors.
And yet we keep pouring money into that country.
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8 minutes ago, tupek said:
HAHAHAHA
The uneventful, obsolete and horrible looking Shrek Forever After opened to $70m, which adjusts to like $86m today, a new nostalgia driven Shrek movie, if marketed well, will do that number in the first day
Remember BOM on that opening weekend? That $70 million ruined a LOT of summer games.
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So, two examples that aren’t animated movies. Looks like we are in uncharted territory here.
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I’m curious, when has a fourth entry in a franchise opened this high and grossed $400 million?
Recent fourth entries off the tip top of my head that even exist:
Shrek 4
Transformers 4
Batman (89-97)
Superman
Free Willy
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1 hour ago, Neucentro said:
Rocketman is -27% from Tuesday. Its week-to-week drop is 26%.
Really hope it can leg it’s way to $100m.
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4 minutes ago, XO21 said:
I haven't checked but that has to be the worst second weekend hold ever for a comic book movie right?
Don’t forget Fant Four Stic!
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Wow, that’s not much of a Saturday increase for Pets.
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1 hour ago, That One Guy said:
The Lion King 2 was released direct to video. Does that count?
It sold ten million copies on VHS its first week, though.
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5 hours ago, baumer said:
Elementary schools?
Yeah, the whole district.
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5 minutes ago, Biggestgeekever said:
Illumination films account for a huge amount of Universal's profits from films. But yes, I'm sure they're just fine with a potentially 50-60% drop domestically for what they probably figured would be a franchise that could sustain itself at least as well as Despicable Me.
They don't have anything to worry about, just look at how Dreamworks is still a titan of the computer animation industry.
I posted in 2016 that Pixar survived Dreamworks in the ‘00s, and they’ll survive Illumination in the ‘10s.
Very similar to the Don Bluth films that were giving Disney a run for their money in the ‘80s.
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1 hour ago, baumer said:
Ours don't get out until last week of June.
We’ve been out since May 22.
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3 hours ago, vafrow said:
Because there's money to be made.
Back in the day, Disney chose not to make a theatrical sequel to the original Aladdin, as the philosophy was that less than perfect sequels dilute the IP value. I don't think they maintain that same mentality these days.
They have a cast that's relatively cheap to lock up to a sequel, a story that has already spun off stories in its previous iteration and shareholders that have grown accustomed to Disney cranking out several billion dollar films a year. Discussion of a sequel seems inevitable.
They didn’t do a theatrical sequel to the first Aladdin because they couldn’t get Robin Williams.
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5 minutes ago, ScoobyDoo21 said:
Only thing wrong about Aladdin right now is that we don't get a video game made out of it. Apparently the Genesis game is good. The SNES one not so much, but that just sounds like Blasphemy since the 90s is Capcom's peak.
Which reminds me that we never got a good Godzilla Video Game
Whaaaaat? The SNES Aladdin game is a classic. I got it for Christmas in ‘93.
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I really enjoyed Rocketman. I hope it legs it’s way to $100 million, the older people in my showing were really into it.
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2 hours ago, JB33 said:
You think so? I always got the feeling BatB was bigger than Aladdin. Might just be anecdotal though.
Aladdin was definitely bigger in the early 90s but BatB has consistently grown more popular over time.
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8 Star Wars films have won the year domestically:
Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
The Phantom Menace
Revenge of the Sith
The Force Awakens
Rogue One
The Last Jedi
3 MCU films have won the year domestically:
Avengers
Black Panther
Endgame
Odd, considering the MCU has made so much more money.
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1 minute ago, GirafficPark said:
LOL nope.
Girl, more people bought CDs than digital albums last year. That market died faster than the MAXI single.
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13 minutes ago, doublejack said:
There is absolutely no way 1 Billion people even know a minor fact about GoT, such as a character name or an event that happened. I sincerely doubt the global audience is even 1/10th that size.
HBO shows in particular seem to be bigger than they truly are. Take The Sopranos. It was a fairly popular show, with ratings in the same range as GoT gets. Does anyone even care about Sopranos anymore? Certainly nobody talks about it. I had to google the show's name because I couldn't recall exactly what it was, I just remember it being about a mob boss. HBO is really good at generating buzz in the media, but that doesn't reflect their shows' actual audience or influence.
Queue the articles about "oh, whatever will HBO do when GoT ends?". HBO breaks those out every time they wind down a series. Not that many people really care, and the network will just move on with a new show for their fans to eat up.
I know, right? Nobody talks about that show with the redhead from the ‘50s either.
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I can’t imagine that this movie will explode past every other Marvel movie in total, especially to the point of a 1 billion domestic total. I think we’ll see that a lot of people just had to run out and see it immediately.
SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME WEEK THREAD l 93.6M 3-Day, 185.1M 6-Day. l ****NO SPOILERS**** | Sale $5 off Gold/Premium/Silver l Other #s - TS4 34.3, YDay 10.7, Annabelle 9.7, Aladdin 7.6, Midsommar 6.6 (10.9 5-Day)
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I’d still bang him out like a typewriter.